CHILDREN OF EARTH
AND SKY
By Guy Gavriel Kay
The bestselling author of
the groundbreaking novels Under Heaven and
River of Stars, Guy Gavriel Kay is
back with a new novel, Children of Earth and Sky (NAL
Hardcover; May 10, 2016; $27.00), set in a world inspired by the conflicts
and dramas of Renaissance Europe. Against the tumultuous backdrop the lives of
men and women unfold on the borderlands – where empires and faiths collide.
From the small coastal
town of Senjan, notorious for its pirates, a young woman sets out to find
vengeance for her lost family. That same spring, from the wealthy city-state of
Seressa, famous for its canals and lagoon, come two very different people: a
young artist traveling to the dangerous east to paint the grand khalif at his
request – and possibly to do more – and a fiercely intelligent, angry woman
posing as a doctor’s wife but sent by Seressa as a spy.
The trading ship that
carries them is commanded by the accomplished younger son of a merchant family,
ambivalent about the life he’s been born to live. And farther east a boy trains
to become a soldier in the elite infantry of the khalif – to win glory in the
war everyone knows is coming.
As these lives entwine,
their fates – and those of many others – will hang in the balance when the
khalif sends out his massive army to take the great fortress that is the
gateway to the western world.
ABOUT GUY GAVRIEL KAY
Guy Gavriel Kay is the
international bestselling author of twelve previous novels and a book of
poetry. He has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work in
literature of the fantastic and won the World Fantasy Award for Ysabel in 2008. In 2014 he was named to
the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor. His work has been
translated into more than twenty-five languages.
For more information,
please visit brightweavings.com and follow Guy Gavriel Kay on twitter
@GuyGavrielKay
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